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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Le Roi Est Mort, Vive le Roi !

He cites Tea Party stalwarts Glenn Beck and Rick Wilson in
support of this view.Further, he notes
three heroes of the Tea Party:

…[Rand] Paul [R-Ky.], Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-Fla.), and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Each ran an insurgent campaign
against the GOP's preferred candidate, each stressed cutting government in the
face of Republican fecklessness in D.C., each brought an injection of youthful
vigor and impatience into the hoary House of McConnell.

But their flavors of
anti-establishmentarianism–with Cruz chasing the Trump insurgency, Rubio
veering toward the Establishment, and Paul making the lonely case for
libertarianism (Huh? SIC)–have so far failed to catch fire in 2015.

In this second paragraph, Welch already answers the question
of who hijacked the Tea Party – and it happened well before Donald Trump came
on the scene.The first two make great
nominees for the “Hijacking the Tea Party Hall of Fame.”

But what of Rand Paul and his “lonely case for
libertarianism”?Suggesting that Rand
also laments the Tea Party label being applied to The Donald:

And unsurprisingly, distant GOP
contender Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been singing a similar tune, here to Glenn
Beck last week:

Paul said Wednesday that
"nothing" that rival Donald Trump is for "is what the Tea Party was about." […] (emphasis added)

Why the past tense?I
guess it could be because Trump has been on the scene for all of 30 days?Or not.

I remember eight years or so ago and all of the concern about
the Tea Party being hijacked – they tried early on with Newt Gingrich.It turns out they didn’t have to look any
further than Rand for the new king.

The Tea Party is dead,
long live the Tea Party.

Trump didn’t hijack it, it was hijacked long ago.The Tea Party was rejection of the
establishment, but it was a very specific rejection: non-intervention, honest
money, and a significant of government meddling in and spying on our lives were
the key pillars.

Trump didn’t hijack it, but perhaps he will today carry the
corpse of the dead body and thereafter wear the crown.All that remains of the dead Tea Party is
rejection of the establishment – with no underlying philosophy to give it life.

By the way, Welch was able to write an entire article about
the Tea Party and not once mention Ron Paul.That takes talent – obviously more talent than I have.